Brave New World

Aldous Huxley. Second American edition, later printing. New York: Harper Brothers, 1946. Both unclipped dust jacket, with original price $2.50 on inside flap, and hardcover are in Very Good condition. A wonderful dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. There is some chipping on the spine and foxing on DJ and flyleaf pages. No writing or markings found in the book, 311 pp. "A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel, Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia, as writers such as H.G. Wells had done, Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science". Huxley's novel was first published by Chatto and Windus in 1932, of which, 324